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[Rogue_Ledr]

BOY!

This game seems downright unfinished.

Not looking forward to playing this. Especially with no SLI support.

 

[fritolay]

I want this game, but I will wait. Does anyone besides me think this would be a good game to port to PS4 or XB1

 

[mkenyon]

I have a 660. There is no way I should have to use the predefined medium setting to get more than 30 fps.

Why?

It's not like games are released where 'High' should equate to a mid range card with a great framerate. Often games aren't able to be played on high levels until future hardware is released. See: Crysis.

Well, at the time of purchasing my cards (680 SLI), the Titan wasn't announced and the cost of a 690 was far greater than the two 680's, even for the performance boost it gave. It just wasn't worth the price.

The frustrating problem I'm having with PC gaming is the fact that regardless of how powerful your rig is...a poorly optimised game (Rome II) will render it unplayable. I dream of a day when you spend your ludicrous amounts to build a rig...then just turn it on and crank every game to Ultra with max AA...and get 70+ FPS with zero hiccup or drops.

Turn down your settings, and see above.

You are playing with a single 680. Why should ultra be playable with that kind of framerate? Does money unlock some sort of magical barrier to accessibility? Should it? Kind of a silly argument you have there

 

[MacNille]

Slave uprising all over the place. I'm getting so sick of it. Enough!

 

[Kainazzo]

Sparta is just as awesome as I thought it would be. Gonna unite Greece and kill Rome.

Sparta really seems like the "Eff the World" faction. It's always nice when strategy games include one.

"Screw ports, screw cavalry, screw archers, and screw you, Macedon! You're not my dad, I'm punching elephants to death."

 

[haikira]

2500k @ 4.4
670 SLI
8GB Ram

Going by the benchmark, I'm actually not doing too bad with performance. Which is especially interesting, since I have SLI, so only one of my cards is really working? Able to get a fairly consistent 60fps, setting the game to very high and throwing on anti aliasing and anisotropic filtering to maximum. There are some crazy spikes shown on the graph at the end however.

I still think Shogun 2 definitely looks and runs better for me though.

 

[sueil]

I feel like I am in a small minority that isn't having any issues with this game. It runs like garbage but lowering the settings helped. Haven't really run into bugs in 12 hours of playing. Gameplay wise it is far and away the best total war yet. I just don't understand people hating on it.

 

[Mattdaddy]

The prologue is a mess. I just skipped it and jumped into a campaign. It's way too buggy right now

Damn too bad, Kinda wanted to check it out. Oh well guess Ill press on.

 

[Gaz_RB]

Sparta really seems like the "Eff the World" faction. It's always nice when strategy games include one.

"Screw ports, screw cavalry, screw archers, and screw you, Macedon! You're not my dad, I'm punching elephants to death."

Exactly! I love it. Macedonia really does seem to think they own Sparta and Athens. Not for long.

 

[maabus1999]

How can a game which has so much graphical detail at times not have SLI or CF in this day and age???

Total War series is a good series, but oh boy are they going to be working on this title for a few months...

 

[Cameron122]

Had a tough time in one of the prologue missions because my general is made out of wafers and shame. I succeeded and the mission glitched out -_-

Again if anyone wants to play I'm NeoTyger122 on Steam.

 

[DTKT]

Why?

It's not like games are released where 'High' should equate to a mid range card with a great framerate. Often games aren't able to be played on high levels until future hardware is released. See: Crysis.

Turn down your settings, and see above.

You are playing with a single 680. Why should ultra be playable with that kind of framerate? Does money unlock some sort of magical barrier to accessibility? Should it? Kind of a silly argument you have there

Rome II doesn't seem to be in the same league as Crysis. It's equal or slightly under Shogun 2 which seems to be much more playable with mid range rigs.

 

[Azulsky]

2500k @ 4.4
670 SLI
8GB Ram

Going by the benchmark, I'm actually not doing too bad with performance. Which is especially interesting, since I have SLI, so only one of my cards is really working? Able to get a fairly consistent 60fps, setting the game to very high and throwing on anti aliasing and anisotropic filtering to maximum. There are some crazy spikes shown on the graph at the end however.

I still think Shogun 2 definitely looks and runs better for me though.

You can confirm with GPU-Z. I didnt do that but Im fairly sure that one card being at 75C and the other at 35C is enough evidence.

I had one spike drop me down to 20fps when the troops first appeared in the benchmark.

I am confident we will still see a patch in the near future that will at least improve performance.

 

[Gaz_RB]

Rome II doesn't seem to be in the same league as Crysis. It's equal or slightly under Shogun 2 which seems to be much more playable with mid range rigs.

Yeah the difference here is that Crysis was a beautiful game. Rome 2, in it's current state, is not.

 

[maabus1999]

Yeah the difference here is that Crysis was a beautiful game. Rome 2, in it's current state, is not.

Gahh talk about a credit series (Crysis) that also went down the tubes over time...

Crysis was up there with Half-Life for game changing FPS experience.

 

[Azulsky]

2500k @ 4.4
670 SLI
8GB Ram

Going by the benchmark, I'm actually not doing too bad with performance. Which is especially interesting, since I have SLI, so only one of my cards is really working? Able to get a fairly consistent 60fps, setting the game to very high and throwing on anti aliasing and anisotropic filtering to maximum. There are some crazy spikes shown on the graph at the end however.

I still think Shogun 2 definitely looks and runs better for me though.

You can confirm with GPU-Z. I didnt do that but Im fairly sure that one card being at 75C and the other at 35C is enough evidence. Aside from the fact that it is already confirmed.

Andy says turning the Vegetation Alpha off gives a big boost, so I will have to rerun with that disabled when i get home.

 

[Berto]

I'm still unable to even start this damn game. I did everything I could, it's now in the hands of CA

Spoiler

lol, I'm screwed

to decide if I've just trown 30€ down the drain.

 

[Chance Hale]

.
Andy says turning the Vegetation Alpha off gives a big boost, so I will have to rerun with that disabled when i get home.

It gave me between 3 to 5 fps boost when zoomed in but it's not the main issue. Performance and AA is totally boinked at the moment.

And the 680 is considered a midrange card already?

 

[DrBo42]

It gave me between 3 to 5 fps boost when zoomed in but it's not the main issue. Performance and AA is totally boinked at the moment.

And the 680 is considered a midrange card already?

If you have an unoptimized game it is.

 

[mkenyon]

It gave me between 3 to 5 fps boost when zoomed in but it's not the main issue. Performance and AA is totally boinked at the moment.

And the 680 is considered a midrange card already?

No, but the 660 is.

Though I'm only commenting on the performance stuff, I'm living vicariously through all of your posts. I won't be able to play until next Monday, as that's when I get my net connection turned on at my new house.

How is the strategy portion of the game outside of the battles? Currently on a big EUIV kick, and I'm hoping it's at least somewhat improved over previous titles. I love them RTS battles, but if the main campaign component is borked (at least in comparison to EUIV), not sure if I'll totally dig it.

 

[Chance Hale]

If you have an unoptimized game it is.

I read his response as being towards the guy with the 680. Any idea of when the drivers will be coming Andy?

 

[publicpwnerer]

Why?

It's not like games are released where 'High' should equate to a mid range card with a great framerate. Often games aren't able to be played on high levels until future hardware is released. See: Crysis.

Turn down your settings, and see above.

You are playing with a single 680. Why should ultra be playable with that kind of framerate? Does money unlock some sort of magical barrier to accessibility? Should it? Kind of a silly argument you have there

Well, I never really looked at it from the perspective of games being made for future hardware.

When I bought my rig, I kinda expected to be able to enjoy games at a high / decent setting for the next couple of years or so. I don't think I have the patience (or finances) anymore to keep upgrading my PC. I know others find 30-45 FPS, or medium etc acceptable, but the biggest boon to PC gaming (for me) is being able to pay a premium to get the highest level of fidelity as well as a more superior experience in comparison to any other gaming device on the market.


So now I'm wondering, when Rome II is inevitably patched up & Nvidia release their drivers...will it be significant in the way of 20+ FPS better, or still shitty?

 

[Gaz_RB]

Well, I never really looked at it from the perspective of games being made for future hardware.

When I bought my rig, I kinda expected to be able to enjoy games at a high / decent setting for the next couple of years or so. I don't think I have the patience (or finances) anymore to keep upgrading my PC. I know others find 30-45 FPS, or medium etc acceptable, but the biggest boon to PC gaming (for me) is being able to pay a premium to get the highest level of fidelity as well as a more superior experience in comparison to any other gaming device on the market.


So now I'm wondering, when Rome II is inevitably patched up & Nvidia release their drivers...will it be significant in the way of 20+ FPS better, or still shitty?

If Shogun 2 is anything to go by, performance gains will be large.

 

[AndyBNV]

I read his response as being towards the guy with the 680. Any idea of when the drivers will be coming Andy?

Our folks will of course look at optimization; sometimes there isn't anything to find, but more often than not it's on the developer's end that things need to change. Then we can implement driver-end stuff.

In this case, I have nothing to report at this time.

 

[S¡mon]

I'm a PlayStation-gamer, but somehow I am really, really tempted to buy this.

 

[mkenyon]

Well, I never really looked at it from the perspective of games being made for future hardware.

When I bought my rig, I kinda expected to be able to enjoy games at a high / decent setting for the next couple of years or so. I don't think I have the patience (or finances) anymore to keep upgrading my PC. I know others find 30-45 FPS, or medium etc acceptable, but the biggest boon to PC gaming (for me) is being able to pay a premium to get the highest level of fidelity as well as a more superior experience in comparison to any other gaming device on the market.


So now I'm wondering, when Rome II is inevitably patched up & Nvidia release their drivers...will it be significant in the way of 20+ FPS better, or still shitty?

So, one game where you are only able to use half of your GPU power (even less considering no driver specific improvements) destroys your PC experience? Not sure I follow.

Creative Assembly seems to put this on the backburner way too often. I remember Medieval II and Empire running like poo first week. Don't be looking at NVIDIA to fix everything, these optimizations are very much a two way street with a lot of effort required on the dev's side to get things going.

 

[valouris]

I'm a PlayStation-gamer, but somehow I am really, really tempted to buy this.

Unless you have a monster rig I dont think you should get it on impulse. Think on it and decide when a few patches have come out and the price is perhaps a bit more favorable.

 

[Rogue_Ledr]

My rig is actually pretty good and the talk about this game is scaring me pretty bad,

 

[houroftower]

As a follow up to my earlier post, I just installed it on both my aging desktop PC and my newer HP Elitebook.
Played a little campaign and some of the Prologue battles.

PC specs:
Q6600 2.4 overclocked to 3.0 Ghz
8 GB DDR2 RAM
Radeon 4870 1GB
Win 7 64 bit
Played at 1680 x 1050

The game first set me on Ultra, which gave 15-20 fps in combat, mid-high 20s in campaign.
I reduced all settings to very high, and disabled all the nice effects, resulting low-mid 20 fps in combat, and high 20/low 30 fps on the map, which for me is playable and about what I was getting in Empire.

On my i5 3360M @2.8 GHz SSD Elitebook
Video: ATI HD 7570m 1GB
8 GB RAM
Win 7 64

Installed very fast amd played briefly at 1600x900 and I reduced most settings one step lower to High and found combat still dips well below 20 fps while campaign feels more stable in the low 20's.

Now I must find time to play.

 

[Sethos]

It's sad that I even have to do this but at least I found a comfortable setting now. 2560x1600 and it's running smooth, can zoom and watch heavy action plus all the effects that matter are still kept to a max. Might even drop DoF an extra notch as I don't feel it adds that much.

 

[UnluckyKate]

So as Britons I conquered all France and spain. Now going for Rome.

How do you win this game ? I'm so confused. I miss all my windows from shogun. I can't find half of the information I need... I play so safe and I feel i'm missing so much. I hate first playthrough haha

 

[FACE]

108k current players atm.

This will surely be the best selling SEGA game in years.

http://steamgraph.net/index.php?action=graph&jstime=1&appid=34330&from=1293724800000&to=End+Time

Shogun 2 hit 37k peak at launch, as a comparison.

Today it peaked at 118k.

No one buys strategy games anymore.

/coldfoot

 

[Addnan]

I probably find charging my entire army into the enemy more fun than it actually is.

10fps. Worth it.

 

[Hrothgar]

Their next game better runs on an engine that is ready for the modern world, Warscape is such a mess.

 

[Rogue_Ledr]

How can a game which has so much graphical detail at times not have SLI or CF in this day and age???

Total War series is a good series, but oh boy are they going to be working on this title for a few months...

Seriously!

These things should be STANDARD by now.

Seems ridiculous that friggin Splinter Cell has one, but this doesn't as a high profile PC exclusive

 

[Dinosaur Tamer]

Why?

It's not like games are released where 'High' should equate to a mid range card with a great framerate. Often games aren't able to be played on high levels until future hardware is released. See: Crysis.

Sure, but that does not seem to apply to Rome II. Given reasonable optimization, there really isn't anything in the game that should be impossible for mid range rigs.

It looks like with most of the recent iterations of the series the game is just poorly optimized. Apart from the game not using all the power that is available (the same was a huge problem with Shogun 2), it looks like CA made some pretty insane decisions when it comes to performance. Like actually rendering every unit that is currently following a movement command twice when you press space during a battle.

 

[doubleplusgood]

The prologue/tutorial was a pain in the ass to complete for me. It bugged up on me sometimes when I didn't let the advisor finish talking before I did what he wanted, or I was forced to wait for him. Best thing to do is either finish it up quickly or go straight to a campagin and learn from there, in my opinion at least.

 

[Eleuin]

I want this game, but I will wait. Does anyone besides me think this would be a good game to port to PS4 or XB1

Nope just you

 

[Gurvon]

Singleplayer works fine and is a very awesome game with a few niggles here and there but man.....I wanted to punch a kitten when me and my buddy found out that co-op campaign is completely broken....
Every single battle leads to a desynch and then the game gets confused and you have to close it down....man did they even try playing multiplayer even once? (custom battles vs ai creates desynchs as well....)

 

[Sethos]

(custom battles vs ai creates desynchs as well....)

Really? I've now played 20+ custom battles with my mate and it has worked perfectly.

 

[owlbeak]

So from what I gathered thus far, I should wait a few weeks to pick this up? Was really looking forward to playing tonight.

 

[Desaan]

Oh boy, so disappointed.

Looks like shit, runs like shit. Shogun is miles ahead of this.....it's not even funny.

Brb (in 6 months)

 

[DrBo42]

Total War: Rome II - I Came, I Saw, I Went Back to Shogun

 

[DTKT]

It's like they never learn. Every single game they release is broken at launch.

 

[Timurid]

Total War: Rome II - I Came, I Saw, I Went Back to Rome: Total War

.

 

[Syf]

Yeah this game needs a handful of patches. My biggest shock is how bad it runs for looking not so impressive. The gameplay is what you expect but the bugs and poor performance are ruining it. I was so hyped for it, too. Blah. ;-;

 

[mkenyon]

Would it be possible to run an identical battle sequence an infinite amount of times?

Asking for possible benching figures.

 

[Inversive]

So from what I gathered thus far, I should wait a few weeks to pick this up? Was really looking forward to playing tonight.

yep, at least til they patch this shit.

 

[Sethos]

Would it be possible to run an identical battle sequence an infinite amount of times?

Asking for possible benching figures.

Well, there's replay mode

 

[Giran]

Ticking the unlimited vram thing solved the whole looks like shit runs like shit issue for me. It looks good now and performance is solid with most settings on ultra with a gtx660. Had one crash so far during deployment phase of a siege but otherwise it's been smooth sailing.